A book review....OPPOL

  OPPOL (the elder sister)
The elder sister:oppol is written by mt vasudhevan nair..it is a super story..and i really enjoy it....
                       It is the tragic tale of an illegitimate child Appu and his mother Malu, whom he believes to be his elder sister. A piece in first-person narration, the story unfolds through the perspective of Appu in the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique of narration and  is woven around the themes of emotional deprivation faced by Malu due to the denial of her motherhood, the alienation she has to suffer in a patriarchal society, the plight of a forced marriage and separation from her child, innocence of Appu unsullied by the insensitivities and suppressions of the adult world and the frustration of Devaki Amma, who is also a woman and a mother.
Malu is Appu’s mother. But the child grows up thinking that she is his sister. Malu is denied the basic privilege of motherhood. He child does not call her ‘mother’. Though she takes care of him, she cannot do it as a mother does because it bewilders Appu. She has to leave her child and is forcefully married off to someone. her feelings are not considered.